A federal judge has rejected Attorney General Eric Holders attempt to keep the courts from wading into the Fast and Furious documents dispute that led to him being held in contempt by the House last year.

In a ruling Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down the Justice Departments request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege to prevent some records about the administrations response to the Operation Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal from being turned over to Congress.

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The decision from Jackson, an Obama appointee, largely tracked with a ruling U.S. District Court Judge John Bates  a President George W. Bush appointee  rendered in 2008 in a similar fight over records pertaining to Bushs dismissal of a batch of U.S. attorneys in 2006.

Jackson hasnt ruled yet on whether Obama had authority to assert executive privilege over records never provided to the president or his advisers, but she concluded in her ruling Monday that the issue is an appropriate one for the courts to resolve

Bon of Babble said: "We couldnt get away from it [Watergate] there was so much coverage."

While that was true late in the game, early on the coverage was rather limited. I remember clearly that I had heard the term "Watergate" many times before learning what it was about.

To catch up, I began reading any article I could find. In my local newspaper the articles were invariably on the back pages. Once I started following the story I realized that there was a great cancer growing in the White House.

It was only later that the media began to realize that the issue wasn't going away quietly.

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